This is a Turlough O'Carolan piece called 'Planxty Irwin'. The arrangement is in DADEAD and the guitar is my Blazer & Henkes 000-42 (Braz/Alpine). Keeping the open strings under control with a guitar that rings like this one can be a bit of a battle (one I frequently lose), but I do, nevertheless, enjoy playing it in dropped tunings.
Tell us about you recording setup. I didn't hear a lot of string noise, so you did a nice job of playing cleanly, but I was just wondering about your EQ?
Posts: 24 | Location: Los Angeles | Registered: November 24, 2005
No EQ, no compression. At all. Not ever, with acoustic guitars. Any time I'm recording anything, I want it to sound as close to how I hear it as I can.
I sometimes record with a very slight bit (maybe 5% wet) of extremely light reverb. It's not anything you would consciously notice in a recording but it does round off the edges a bit. I don't think I had that going with this recording, but I'm not positive.
Anyway, with guitar I basically don't process the signal at all. What I play -- for better or worse -- is what I get.
My setup for this is just the guitar going through a matched pair (spaced, not XY) of Rode NT5s, to an ART Digital MPA Tube Preamp, SPDIF to my Presonus Firebox to Cubase.
Mike
Posts: 525 | Location: Texas | Registered: May 16, 2007
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